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Public Culture and Civic Engagement

Handle With Care: For America to prosper, we citizens must not forget our responsibility to understand our past in order to logically react to the present and plan for the future.(Lauck Olson, AMS 301 shadowbox project)

This area of concentration (for the AMS major) focuses on the practices and activities of civic engagement, the construction of shared identity and public memory, and the interpretation, presentation, and preservation of cultural resources.

Students must select and take 15 semester hours with at least 12 hours at the 200 level and above, incorporating at least 3 different disciplines, from among the following courses.

Courses for Public Culture and Civic Engagement Area of Concentration

Course

Title

Hours

ATH 212

Intro to Archaeological Theory and Methods

4

ATH 441

Museum Development, Philosophy, and Social Context

3

ATH 443

The Museum Exhibit

3

ATH 444

Museum Collections Management and Conservation

3

ARC 188

Ideas in Architecture

3

ARC 321

History of Interiors

3

ARC 427

The American City Since 1940

3

CCA 201

Introduction to Arts Management

3

CCA 410

Advanced Topics in the Creative Arts

1-4

COM/HST 389

Great Issues in American History: Rhetoric and Reality

3

COM 437

Advocacy in Contemporary America

3

COM 438

Political Communication

3

ECO 331

Public Sector Economics

3

ECO 332

Health Economics

3

ECO 435

Urban and Regional Economics

3

ECO 451

Economic History

3

EDL 204

Sociocultural Studies in Education

3

EDL 282

Cultural Studies, Power, and Education

3

EDL 334

Youth Subcultures, Popular Culture, & Non-Formal Education

3

FSW 201

Introduction to Social Work

3

FSW 206

Social Welfare: Impact on Diverse Groups

4

FSW 362

Family Poverty

3

FSW 462

Family Policy and Law

3

FST/HST 252

Representations of History in Film and Video *

3

GEO 451

Urban and Regional Planning

3

GEO 454

Urban Geography

3

HST/AMS 204

Introduction to Public History

3

HST/AMS 304

History, Memory, Tradition

3

HST/AMS 433

Oral Tradition: History and Practice

3

HST/AMS 435

Public History Practicum

3

JRN 421

Capstone in Journalism

3

KNH 276

The Meaning of Leisure

3

POL 261

Public Administration

4

POL 307

Public Opinion Laboratory

2

POL 355

Public Opinion

3

POL 406

Public Policy Analysis Laboratory

2

POL 411

American Political Thought

4

POL 419

Civil Society and Modern Politics

3

POL 466

Public Policy Analysis

3

POL 467

Public Budgeting

3

SOC 201

Social Problems

4

SOC 202

Social Deviance

4

SOC 335

Sociology of Education

4

SOC 347

Urban Sociology

3

SOC 411

Social Conflict

3

SOC 417

Economy and Society

3

THE 391

Modern American Theatre

3

THE 493

American Theatre

3

* Contingent on semester topic

American Studies

The American Studies program (AMS) is an interdisciplinary program in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies in the College of Arts and Science. Students can earn a Bachelor's degree (major) and a minor in this field of study. We offer students a rich, interdisciplinary curriculum coupled with many opportunities for independent research, study away, and internships.